Q. When did Neurotic Friends begin? Tell us about the history...
We all knew each other, since we’re from a very small town, and just decided to start playing music together. We started out about a year ago and were goofing around with some ideas, which resulted in us recording a couple of songs in the summer of 2017.

Q: Who are your influences?
No particular bands, but we’ve had our eyes on the shoegaze-, noise-, and rock scene. Mostly, we’ve just made melodies that sounds good to us.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Loveless
Jane Doe
In Utero
Jazz på Svenska
Cruel Town

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We’ve never played live. They say it’s supposed to be fun.

Q. How do you describe Neurotic Friends sounds?
We want to play shoegaze but we don’t know how… On a serious note, it’s basically a lot of distortion and reverb and the vocals are mixed far back. We haven’t gone for a particular sound since all our songs sound quite different to each other.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We put up all our equipment in Jonathan’s parents living room for a weekend and recorded, mixed and mastered all the songs in that time. When we got stuck in the recording process, Jonathan would get up on the trampoline in their backyard and do a couple of backflips, which made us break the deadlock.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Slow Crush
Agent blå
Newman

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Black Sabbath.

Q: What are your plans for the future?
We usually don’t make plans. Hopefully we will get together and write new songs and play some shows.